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February 2014

February 14, 2014

How The Lego Movie Helped Me Overcome Fantastical Disappointment

I was disappointed in The LEGO Movie reveal because, at times, I'm disappointed in myself.

February 12, 2014

‘Alone Yet Not Alone’ and the Racial Tone-Deafness of Conservative America

The impulse from the Right to “set the record straight” and portray America’s settlers as...

February 11, 2014

The Kiddy Pool: Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Paradox of the Loving Addict

"Every relationship with an addict follows the same patterns of peripheral powerlessness"

February 10, 2014

Ones and Zeros: A Reflection on Spike Jonze’s HER

How often, in the name of love, do we try to re-create other people in...

February 07, 2014

Ocean’s 11, 1944: Sorting through the Jumble of THE MONUMENTS MEN

While George Clooney's wildly-uneven THE MONUMENTS MEN doesn't know what it's supposed to be, one...

February 03, 2014

What I Learned From Philip Seymour Hoffman

by Alissa Wilkinson The great actor Philip Seymour Hoffman was found dead yesterday of a...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Listening Closely to Wolf of Wall Street: Music as a Moral Clue in the Films of Martin Scorsese

Scorsese has left us clues in Wolf of Wall Street and his other “irredeemable” films...

January 14, 2014

Beware the Frozen Heart

A Disney story set in the snow can help thaw a girl's heart.

January 09, 2014

Christmas, in Four Movies

Number 7: We experience traditions through the stories we tell each other. D.L. Mayfield reflects...

January 03, 2014

3. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: “We are the Audience” #CaPC25

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of...

January 03, 2014

4. Before Midnight: “What Happens After” #CaPC25

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of...

January 02, 2014

6. Twelve Years a Slave: “Little Relief for the Moviegoer” #CaPC25

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of...

January 01, 2014

13. Gravity: “Humanity’s Own Fight” #CaPC25

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of...

January 01, 2014

15. The Great Gatsby: “An Absurdity That Speaks a Twinge of Truth” #CaPC25

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

20. Mad Men: “There’s the Slightest Hope” #CaPC25

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved things of...

December 30, 2013

25. From Up on Poppy Hill: “Argued More From the Heart” #CaPC25

All this week, the writers of Christ and Pop Culture unveil their 25 most loved...

December 23, 2013

The Misguided Longing to be “Home Alone”

"Kevin McCallister’s goofy separation and reunion with his family speaks with remarkable perceptivity to loneliness...

December 12, 2013

Aronofsky’s Noah: Light, as Refracted through Water

"We don't want films that cynically exploit Scripture, but what do we want instead?"

December 10, 2013

The Kiddy Pool: Katniss Everdeen and the Greatest Love

"The Hunger Games is compelling precisely because it calls upon audience to consider what kinds...

December 04, 2013

About Time: A Romantic Comedy That’s Actually About Love

About Time might seem like a simple rom-com, but guest writer Marybeth Davis Baggett finds...

December 03, 2013

The Kiddy Pool: The Burden of Not Knowing & the Loving Arms of Advent

"I used to fear, during my pregnancy with my second daughter, that God would smite...

December 02, 2013

Connecting Head and Hands: The Tragedy of Science Fiction Without Redemption

Modern cinematic works of science fiction try to imitate the message of Metropolis, showing the...

November 2013

November 27, 2013

Moving Images: Interpreting Film In Spirit and Truth

Maybe more than any other people group, Christians believe that stories shape people, making us...

November 13, 2013

The Kiddy Pool: Jim Henson’s Compromise

"How many of us wrestle with the differences between our ideas of marriage and family...

November 08, 2013

‘Ender’s Game,’ Genocide, and Moral Culpability

"The film’s vision largely distills the essence of the novel and in the process provides...

November 05, 2013

The Gospel According to Inigo Montoya (aka Mandy Patinkin)

"Revenge will steal your life until you don’t know any other way to live."

October 2013

October 31, 2013

I Finally Made Myself Watch The Exorcist, and I Did Not Leave Without Hope

What one CaPC writer found after he overcame crippling fear and subjected himself to the...

October 10, 2013

Why Bad News is Good News for ‘The Silver Chair’

What the Narnia films need is a little hardship.

October 10, 2013

The Moviegoer: Lost in the Cosmos, a Review of Gravity

In Gravity, we're invited to entertain the prospect of being lost in the cosmos.

October 03, 2013

How Hollywood’s Bro-Fest Hurts Us All

"There needs to be a collective and sustained effort by women and men to address...

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